Gave Up Smoking Quotes

#1. As a rule, wearing a bigger pair of jeans looks better than squishing yourself into a pair of jeans that used to fit before you gave up smoking.

Jenny Eclair

#2. I sometimes overeat or drink too much, but I don't eat chocolate, and I gave up smoking when I was 39.

Marie Helvin

#3. There was a time when the only thing I liked about sex was the cigarette after. Then I grew up and gave up smoking.

Chloe Thurlow

#4. Does anybody who gave up smoking to save a pound a week have a pound at the end of the week? Not on your life.

Katharine Whitehorn

#5. I've never been in parliament as a National, I gave up smoking about the same time [and] I've rid myself of two cancers.

Tony Windsor

#6. I gave up smoking, I never gave up the drinking. But it's hard to smoke and swim at the same time. You'd get to the edge of the pool and all you'd be wanting is a cigarette when all you actually really want is oxygen. So I traded the smoke for the oxygen.

Ashton Kutcher

#7. I know a guy who gave up smoking cigarettes, consuming, sex, and wealthy meals.

Johnny Carson

#8. I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the time he killed himself.

Johnny Carson

#9. When I stopped smoking cigars it was the biggest mistake I made in my life. So my resolution for 98 is Im going to start smoking cigars again. I gave them up about a year and a half ago, and I now realize that it may have been my one last fun, interesting thing to do.

David Letterman

#10. Finally, he gave up trying to quiet her and lit a cigarette, the last resort of a man who finds himself in an intolerably stupid position.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#11. I inhaled deeply, feeling of two minds about the benefits and detriments of smoking. On one hand, tobacco robbed me of my wind, but on the other, it gave me something to do while the devil was tempting me!

Walter Mosley

#12. I thought I couldn't afford to take her out and smoke as well. So I gave up cigarettes. Then I took her out and one day I looked at her and thought: 'Oh well,' and I went back to smoking again, and that was better.

Benny Hill

#13. The greatness of a writer has nothing to do with subject matter itself, only with how much the subject matter touches the author.

Boris Pasternak

#14. The first comic I ever read was an 'X-Men' themed anti-smoking PSA they gave out in health class when I was about 10.

G. Willow Wilson

#15. He even let me smoke a cigarette in his office, but he urged me to quit smoking because of the health risks. He even had a pamphlet in his desk that he gave me. I now use it as a bookmark.

Stephen Chbosky

#16. It's always that tricky thing with a remake, especially when it's something that's well loved. You're coming to something that has a built-in fascination, but with that comes people ready to feel disgruntled that it's being remade at all.

David Tennant

#17. Nigel gave the lamp a cautious buff and small smoking red letters appeared in the air. "Hi," Nigel read aloud, "Do not put down the lamp because your custom is important to us. Please leave a wish after the tone and, very shortly, it will be our command. In the meantime, have a nice eternity."

Terry Pratchett

#18. The wisdom and compassion a woman can intuitively experience in childbirth can make her a source of healing and understanding for other women.

Stephen Gaskin

#19. Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.

P. J. O'Rourke

#20. Most artists look for something fresh to paint; frankly I find that quite boring. For me it is much more exciting to find fresh meaning in something familiar.

Andrew Wyeth